Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: California, Southern - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This collection consists of glass photonegatives, glass positive transparencies, and black & white photographic prints of the photographer C.C. Pierce (1861-1946). The subject matter primarily covers Los Angeles and the surrounding vicinity.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946

Description:: Construction for the Colorado River Aqueduct began in 1933 and ended in 1935, overseen by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Water first flowed through the completed aqueduct in 1939.
Date:: [between 1933 and 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt School with earthquake damage visible in the 2nd story of the projecting centerpiece, with the rubble in a heap on the ground in front of the arched double doorway.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, runaway Beulah Sizemore sleeps. She lies face down in a bed. To the right of her, another unidentified child sleeps.
Date:: [circa August - September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, runaway John Sizemore, Jr. sleeps. He is viewed close-up as he lies, face-up, in a bed. To the left of him, another unidentified child sleeps.
Date:: [circa August - September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Scottish golfer Willie Hunter takes a swing during a golf tournament.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears in "What Became of the 20-Mule Freighters?" Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1935: H16.
Date:: [circa October 13, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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